New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals' player Siddharth Trivedi, who was made a prosecution witness by Delhi Police in the spot-fixing scandal, admitted to have taken money from bookies which he later returned after a sting scare in 2012. As per reports, Trivedi, in a statement given to Delhi police admitted he had taken Rs 3 lakh - in sums of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 2 lakh from alleged bookies Deepak...
09:23 AM, Jun 20, 2013
New Delhi: Amit Sadh can't contain his excitement when we speak to him about the spurt in the number of new faces which are launched in Bollywood every year. The actor, who made headlines for his role in 'Kai Po Che', elucidates the key factors responsible for this phenomenon. "If we get to see new faces so often, it is only because of the movies which are being made now....
08:44 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Milan: A Milan court on Wednesday convicted the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of tax evasion. They were found guilty of failing to declare 200 million euros ($268 million) through a Luxembourg company to authorities and given a one year and eight months suspended jail sentence. They were ordered to pay a penalty of 500,000 euros (about $670,000) to tax authorities. The court, however, acquitted them of misrepresenting income...
07:59 AM, Jun 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Police custody of suspended Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ajit Chandila in the IPL spot-fixing case will end on Thursday. Chandila was on Monday send to a three-day police custody by a Delhi court. The police on Monday informed the court that the questioning of bookies Ramesh Vyas, Sunil Bhatia and Feroze Ansari had revealed more information about the player-bookie nexus. The Delhi Police had opposed bail for Chandila...
06:25 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Mogadishu: Islamist militants carried out a deadly assault on the main UN compound in the Somali capital on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and diplomats. The assault, claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab, began before midday when a car bomb exploded outside the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) base. Rebel gunmen forced their way into the compound...
04:25 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday his government would not join US peace talks with the Taliban and halted negotiations with Washington on a troop pact, underscoring the fragile nature of hopes for a negotiated peace in Afghanistan. The United States and the Taliban have said officials from both sides will meet in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on Thursday, in a step forward for a stuttering peace...
03:45 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday chaired the unified headquarters meeting which took stock of the security situation in the state and the arrangements for the forthcoming annual Amarnath Yatra. An official statement issued in Srinagar said the Chief Minister received a briefing on the prevailing security and law and order situation in the state during the meeting, as well as "arrangements put in place to...
02:06 AM, Jun 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed a government order prohibiting autorickshaws from displaying advertisements and posters. A division bench of Justice PK Bhasin and Justice VP Vaish also issued notice to the transport department of Delhi and sought a response by July 8. It blocked any coercive action against the auto-rickshaw drivers. Appearing for the auto drivers, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member and lawyer Prashant Bhushan said...
01:46 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Chennai: Muslim party Manithaneya Makkal Katchi's (MMK) two legislators in the Tamil Nadu Assembly would vote in favour of DMK's Kanimozhi in the June 27 Rajya Sabha biennial elections, said a party official. Speaking to reporters here Wednesday, MMK leader MH Jawahirullah said: "We met DMK chief M. Karunanidhi and expressed our support to Kanimozhi in the Rajya Sabha elections." DMK has 23 members and with MMK's support, the total...
01:26 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Even though aerial surveys and rescue missions by the Indian Army, Indian Air Force and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and clearing skies provided some aid to the people in Uttarakhand, places that have been most affected by the nature's fury have remained inaccessible due damaged transport and road services. ...
11:54 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Rescue teams were finally able to evacuate some of the people stranded in higher reaches of Uttarakhand on Wednesday even though damaged roads and washed away bridges continued to hinder evacuation throughout the day. ...
10:53 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Mumbai: Postmortem report of Jiah Khan has concluded that the Bollywood actress died due to hanging and no external injuries were found on her body, police said on Wednesday. "The postmortem report has found that the death of Jiah Khan was due to hanging and no other external wounds were found," they said. Jiah (25) hanged herself at her residence in western Mumbai on June 3, allegedly over broken relationship...
10:42 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Eastbourne Sania Mirza and Lizel Huber suffered an upset defeat at the hands of Monica Niculescu and Klara Zakopalova to crash out of WTA Aegon International, here on Wednesday. The second seeded Indo-American pair had recovered well after losing the first set and had chances in the match tie-breaker but eventually lost 3-6 6-3 9-11 in one hour and 20 minutes to the Romanian-Czech combination. It was second match in...
10:34 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Rotterdam: India's hopes of securing a direct berth in next year's World Cup went up in smoke after they were handed a humiliating 1-5 defeat by Australia in the quarter-final of the men's competition of the FIH World League Round 3, here Wednesday. Six top teams -- three each -- will qualify directly for the 2014 World Cup to be held in Hague, The Netherlands from the two editions of...
10:31 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: Rescue teams were finally able to evacuate some of the people stranded in higher reaches of Uttarakhand on Wednesday even though damaged roads and washed away bridges continued to hinder evacuation throughout the day. The government, on its part, has pumped in immediate relief funds and rescue choppers to the battered north Indian state, which has been devastated due to torrential rains that have caused massive landslides and...
09:59 PM, Jun 19, 2013
London: England eased into the Champions Trophy final after finishing off South Africa in a semifinal at The Oval on Wednesday that had all the tension of a practice session. Tasked with 176 for victory, England could afford to take their time before a subdued, near-capacity crowd to bag the runs in 37.3 overs with seven wickets to spare. Jonathan Trott and Joe Root combined for 105 from 126 balls...
09:52 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Singapore: After sending Taufik Hidayat into retirement, India's B Sai Praneeth caused another big upset by defeating second seed Yun Hu of Hong Kong in the men's singles first round of the Singapore Open Super Series here on Wednesday. The 20-year-old Sai, ranked 61 in the world, thrashed World No. 4 Hu 21-9, 21-10 in exactly half an hour at the Singapore Indoor Stadium to level his head-to-head to 1-all....
08:26 PM, Jun 19, 2013
CNN-IBN's cricket expert Maninder Singh previews the second Champions Trophy semifinal between India and Sri Lanka on Thursday. ...
08:14 PM, Jun 19, 2013
London: Liverpool took a huge financial hit on Andy Carroll on Wednesday by selling the towering England striker to fellow Premier League side West Ham, ending his disappointing 2 -year spell at Anfield. Carroll joined Liverpool from Newcastle on deadline day in January 2011 for a staggering 35 million pounds (then $56 million), making him Britain's most expensive footballer, but he struggled under the weight of expectation and didn't fit...
07:48 PM, Jun 19, 2013
London: Two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova has pulled out of Wimbledon because of an abdominal strain. The Russian was seeded No. 26 at the All England Club and her withdrawal has resulted in the 33rd-ranked Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic climbing into the seedings at No. 32. Kuznetsova won the US Open in 2004 and the French Open in 2009 but has never progressed further than the quarterfinals...
07:45 PM, Jun 19, 2013
